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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

First Hair Cut

I did it, you guys. I cut Zuzu's hair.

I know it's hard to believe, given that she doesn't appear to have a whole lot of it. She's really challenged in the bang-area. But the back was moving past wispy to stringy and instead of looking cute and whimsical it looked unkempt and ragamuffin.

My mom had been nagging encouraging me to trim it up for a while now--assuring me it would "look thicker!" I had mixed feelings though--I was afraid it would make her look grown up, and she did have this one little curl in the middle (well, sometimes it curled) that was really cute, in a mullet rat tail sort of way.

Um, this is cute, right?

But then I took this picture of here, and while it just captured her at an unfortunate moment, I could no longer ignore the fact that her hair looked, well, horrid.

I mean MY GOD, is she feral? Judging by the fact that she actually chewed the styrofoam cup behind her in half and then covered herself in her dinner (hence the strip-down in the kitchen), it seems quite possible. Also, the short-on-top, long-on-the-sides look is just not super flattering.

So I sat her in the high chair, gave her some fruit to snack on, and trimmed it up across the back.

I'm not sure it really looks thicker, but it is more even and definitely looks less like she's being raised by wolves.

And it's still wispy and sweet.

The nice part of her not having any hair on top is that cutting her hair didn't age her the way haircuts sometimes do. She still looks just like our little punkin from the front. It's just a bit more... civilized... in the back.

12 comments:

Gwen has unfortunately inherited my thin whispy hair rather than Joel's beautiful thick hair, so at 25 months we still haven't had anything to cut. Opposite of Zuzu, though, hers is getting long and thicker on top, but in the back is still barely visible!

She looks nice and toddler fresh with that new do. I too am afraid of cutting the baby strays...can't go back once you snip! I didn't expect to have a baby with wild crazy hair. That crazy look that Caroline is sporting (ha!!) is what I Think Theo will look like in a few weeks...plus the spike he has going on. I need to cut it soon.. The trailer park growth poking all around his ears is really dirty looking. Like, he HAS parents. C'mon now. I just wasn't expecting to do it before the year mark!!

My friend is Asian, and had a girl back in 09, and it's tradition in her culture to shave the head at like, 4 months... so thick, mature hair will grow in...and to repeat 2-3 times during toddlerhood. She didnt do it, but apparently she was shaved bald as a baby!